Speakers

Mr. Azlan Shah Raja Azwa served as the Managing Director of Healthcare Group at Sime Darby Berhad. Mr. Azwa served as the Managing Director of Healthcare Group at Sime Darby Global Berhad since September 16, 2010. He served as Chief of Staff at Sime Darby Berhad since September 16, 2010 and served as its Chief Operating Officer of Healthcare...

Dr Ajay Bakshi is an experienced healthcare professional and has played diverse roles as practicing Neurosurgeon (India), Stem cell Scientist (USA), and Management Consultant (global) over the last two decades. He has abundant expertise in healthcare with strong leadership skills and passion for innovation. He received his medical training from...

Dr. Annabelle R. Borromeo is currently Senior VP and Head of Hospital Operations in SLMC QC and Chief Nursing Officer in SLMC QC and GC. She is a neuro and cardiovascular critical care nurse at heart having practiced as a neurology and cardiovascular critical care nurse over a span of 20 years. She obtained her basic nursing education at the...

Linda Burgoyne is the Deputy CEO managing hospital operations and directing the strategic plan for hospital development. Linda closely monitors the clinical and corporate governance to ensure delivery of safe and quality medical care. Linda has held several senior positions in the UK, United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong. Her international work...

Mr Martin Castro is the Consultant, specialising in Medical Planning, in the healthcare team at CPG Consultants. Having started his career as an architect, Martin has over 22 years of experience in architecture, of which 20 years have been focused on Medical Planning.
Martin’s experience in Healthcare Design spans across several regions around ...

Annie Chen is the Director of Medical Administrative Office of Taipei Hospital and Executive Secretary of Taiwan International Healthcare Training Center. She received her master degree in Health Policy and Management at National Taiwan University. She is in charges of the medical record management, health insurance declaration and medical...

Cheng Chye is a registered architect and a qualified urban planner with more than 25 years of professional experience, including experience as a full-time staff in a tertiary-care hospital. He has in-depth understanding of healthcare operations and is a strong advocate for architectural qualities that can be incorporated into design to promote...

As part of leadership development and talent renewal in the Parkway Pantai Group, Dr VincentChia was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of Gleneagles Hospital with effect from 1January 2014. Since then, he has been actively involved in driving the hospital’s growth andbusiness development, getting to know the staff and operations as well as...

Lawrence Chong is the CEO of Consulus, an innovation and design firm. He is a regular speaker at global events and have been featured at World Marketing Summit, World Brand Congress, Business of Design Week and is a featured Columnist on innovation, branding and design for Asian businesses. He has served as judge for Singapore Prestige Brand...

Dr Paul Dugdale is a Public Health Physician from Canberra Australia where he is Director of Chronic Disease Management at Canberra Hospital and Health Services and Associate Professor of Public Health at the Australian National University. He is a chairman of the governing boards of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association and the...

Qualex Asia is a subsidiary of Qualex Consulting Services, Inc., a Virginia corporation, which maintains its corporate headquarters in Miami, Florida and currently has a worldwide employee base of 85+ consultants. Founded over two decades ago, Qualex is a leading software solutions services company that provides software and consulting services...

Mr. Raj Gore is seasoned global professional with more than 15 years of versatile experience in business management and information technology in North America, Asia, & Africa, with a particular focus on healthcare for the past 10 years.
He is currently the Vice President – Operations at Fortis Healthcare Limited, India. Prior to this he...

Dr Guillon is the CEO of FV Hospital. He graduated from Paris Medical University in 1983. After several years of medical practice as Pulmonologist and Internal Medicine specialist, he became part, in 1997, of the team that created FV Hospital. He led the whole development process and opened FV Hospital, the first foreign-owned private hospital...

Joe Hau helms the operations of the surgical division as well as the non-subsidised services at Tan Tock Seng Hospital. Prior to his role at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Joe was heading the operations and administration of the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore (NCIS), the University Surgical Cluster and the University Dental Cluster in...

Leon Jackson is the Head of Healthcare IT for UM Specialist Centre (UMSC), a private tertiary care delivery organization owned by the University of Malaya. He is a subject matter expert on Healthcare IT, with 13 years of experience in software engineering and 6 years of experience in the healthcare industry. He heads the IT team responsible for...

V.P.Kamath joined as a Management Trainee and chose to involve himself in cross-functional fields over the past two decades saw him rising swiftly in positions of increasing responsibility. He has handled various assignments in the areas of General Management, Operations, Marketing, Sales, Strategic Planning, Business Development & Healthcare...

Sai Fong is the Director Operations at West Point Hospital. Her educational background includes a Bachelor of Health Science Degree in Nursing from University of Sydney, followed by a Master of Science in Nursing Management from University of Southern Queensland. She was also qualified as a Master Trainer for Chronic Disease Self-Management...

Dr. Allen Lai is the Director of the Institute of Health Economics & Management Asia-Pacific (IHEM Asia-Pacific), ESSEC Business School, where he heads IHEM Asia-Pacific’s efforts in fostering knowledge transfers between academic, policy makers and business communities on health economics issues in the Asia-Pacific region as well as between...

Mr. Neeraj Lal (BSc, PGDHA, MHA) is highly qualified in healthcare industry having more than 16 years of hospital operations and administration experience, holding degree in Masters of Hospital Administration-MHA from prestigious Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai. Presently working as Group Chief Operating Officer (Group COO)...

JOE LEDESMA
SECOND VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
FORMER PRESIDENT & CEO
ST. LUKE’S MEDICAL CENTER
PHILIPPINES
From April 1981 to May 2012 Joe Ledesma was a dominant figure in the transformation of
St. Luke’s Medical Center from an obsolete, dilapidated and almost bankrupt 150-bed hospital to one of the world’s best medical...

Ms Sue Lee Tsui Ling is the CEO of Ara Damansara Medical Centre (ADMC), a 220-bed tertiary hospital boosted by its three centres of excellence dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of heart, brain, spine and joint diseases.
ADMC is under Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care Group, a joint venture company between Sime Darby, Malaysia’s...

Mr. Michael Leow is the Director of Operations (Community) at Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH), Singapore – a member of the National Healthcare Group (NHG). He is responsible for the operational driving, implementation and support of care integration services and community outreach programmes for TTSH, and within the Central Regional Health System ...

Andres M. Licaros, Jr. was a Vice President for Marketing at St. Luke's Medical Center QC, a Director for Marketing at The Medical City in Pasig and President and CEO of Davao Doctors Hospital from 2008 to 2011. He led DDH into achieving 3 consecutive record breaking growth years in census, revenues and profit. This was achieved by keeping...

Mr Frankie Lim oversees the healthcare team at CPG Consultants, specialising in creative, innovative and sustainable health oriented developments, bringing together the company's breadth and depth of expertise in designing and implementing urban, health, social and ecological infrastructure.
Frankie started his career as an architect...

Finance executive with over 11 years as a CPA and 27 years of experience in commerce and industry management.
Mr. Lledo is a Filipino citizen. He acquired the title of Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in the Philippines in 1977. He obtained certification from the Management Development Program (MDP) of the Asian Institute of...

Ms Loh Shu Ching is the CEO of Ren Ci Hospital. She started her career in the healthcare industry with Tan Tock Seng Hospital in 1993 and was seconded to the Home Nursing Foundation, a voluntary welfare organisation, as its General Manager in April 2009. She became the CEO of Ren Ci Hospital in 2011. She also sits on the Intermediate and Long...

Kenneth Mays is Director of Marketing for Bumrungrad International, the largest private hospital in Southeast Asia and one of the world's leading medical destinations.
During his seven years at Bumrungrad, the hospital attracted over 1.5 million patients from 200 different countries outside of Thailand. Bumrungrad was the first...

Julie McCaughan has over 30 years of Nursing Experience in both Clinical and Senior Management positions in both Australia and Indonesia. Julie’s clinical background includes specializing in Surgical Nursing, Intensive Care Nursing, Hyperbaric Nursing, Stomal Therapy Nursing, and Woundcare. Julie has received awards in Australia in both...

Julie W. Munro is president of the Medical Travel Quality Alliance (MTQUA), which she founded in 2009 to promote safer and better care management that leads to better outcomes for medical tourists. She speaks with authority about care management as one of the few leaders in medical tourism with direct personal experience as an international...

Dr. Ng is the Group CEO for Q&M Dental Group (Singapore) Ltd. Graduated from NUS with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery, Dr. Ng has received numerous awards and recognitions in both professional and academic appointments. Dr. Ng was elected as the council member of Singapore Dental Association (SDA) and Singapore Dental Council. His most...

Dr. Tullawat Pacharapha is the Chief Operating Officer for Vejthani hospital, one of the leading medical tourism destinations in Thailand. The hospital has been accredited by Joint Commission International. Dr. Tullawat holds the degree of Doctor of Medicine, Board of Orthopaedic Surgery, Master of Business Administration and Ph.D. in...

Dr. Chairat Panthuraamphorn, Managing Director and CEO of Samitivej Hospital Group (Thailand), has experiences in healthcare industry and hospital management as a top executive level for over 10 years.Dr. Chairat received his Bachelor of Science (Medical Science) in 1978 and Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) in 1981 from Mahidol University, Thailand. In...

Benjamin is a senior medical social worker at NUH and has been working there for 8 years. He holds a BA (Social Work) and a MSc in Family & Systemic Psychothereapy. He works with neonates, children, adolescents and their families; and is part of the crisis intervention team working with children and adults involved in family violence. He is...

Dr. Mudit Saxena is the Chief Operating Officer at HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd. (HCG) Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
A highly accomplished professional with MHA and post graduation from IIM-B having over 16 years of leadership roles in Public, Trust and Corporate Sector Healthcare units with expertise in Heading Operations of Healthcare...

Arvind Sivaramakrishnan is the CIO of Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd, India and is based in Chennai, India. He is responsible for the IT strategy and implementation across the Apollo Hospitals group. Arvind has extensive experience in management consulting, architecting, and building solutions for enterprise wide applications. He has led Apollo ...

Anne Kim is an Investment Director of Heritas Capital Management (an investment management fund of IMC Pan Asia Alliance), focusing on investments in the healthcare sector across Asia. Previously, she was a founding member of Quadria Capital, a pan-Asian healthcare private equity fund focused on South and Southeast Asia. Anne started her career...

Dr. Le Quoc Su has more than 20 years working in different aspects of healthcare industry in Viet Nam. He was teaching in Pham Ngoc Thach Medical School in Ho Chi Minh City, researching in breast cancer and practicing as physician in Oncology hospital of HCMC. He has held the role as Country Manager for Abbott and Baxter for 7 years and the role ...

Mr Tang Kai Vern has been an architect since 2004, he was involved in a variety of international projects, such as Desa Park City Hospital in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Ngoc Tam Hospital and Hanh Phuc Hospital in Ho Chin Minh City, Vietnam. Adding onto his repertoire of healthcare projects, Kai Vern has also contributed largely to the design and...

Dr. Vinayagam assumed the role of managing director of the Singapore-based Asia-Pacific Office in July 2014. He is an accomplished C-suite executive with experience in health care strategy and innovation and draws upon his background as a Physician with a MBA and 20 year Industry experience at various roles across the Asia pacific region.
In...

Professor Ming Chu Wang is the Superintendent of National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH), Chu-Tung branch since Aug 2013.
He started his career as secretary of Medical Affairs at NTUH in 2005 and was promoted as vice superintendent and also the director of the Development and Planning Office of NTUH since 2008 till Aug 2013.
He was the...

Laurence Wong is General Director of Great Eastern Life Vietnam. He is a 29-year veteran of the insurance industry, and has held key positions in various insurers ranging from mass market to high networth. He has spent the last two years establishing Great Eastern’s presence in an emerging market with great potential due to a rapidly growing...

Jiadi Yu is a senior investment officer at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). IFC is the private sector arm of the World Bank Group and the largest multilateral investor in the emerging markets. Jiadi is based in Hong Kong and has previously worked in the IFC offices in Washington D.C. and Beijing. She leads investments in Health and ...